How can you believe your eyes when they're not yours?
The violinist Sydney Wells has been accidentally blinded by her sister Helen since she was five years old. She submits to a surgery of cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people. With the support of Dr. Paul Faulkner, Sidney finds who the donor of her eyes was and they travel to Los Llanos in Mexico to resolve the mystery of her visions.
Genre(s): Drama, Horror, Thriller
Runtime: 98 minutes
Rating: 5.3/10 (14,669 votes)
Release Date: 31 January 2008
Country: USA
Languages: English, Spanish
Company: Lionsgate
Sound: Dolby Digital
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for violence/terror and disturbing content.
Director(s): David Moreau, Xavier Palud
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Producer(s):
Sarah E. Baker - associate producer
Peter Block - executive producer
Peter Chan - executive producer
Doug Davison - executive producer
Mike Elliott - executive producer
Ogden Gavanski - line producer: Vancouver additional photography
Don Granger - producer
Roy Lee - executive producer
Michelle Manning - producer
Darren Miller - executive producer
Jack L. Murray - line producer (as Jack Murray)
Tom Ortenberg - executive producer
Michael Paseornek - executive producer
Paula Wagner - producer
Writer(s):
Sebastian Gutierrez - (screenplay)
Jo Jo Yuet-chun Hui - (2002 screenplay "Jian gui") and
Oxide Pang Chun - (2002 screenplay "Jian gui") (as Oxide Pang) and
Danny Pang - (2002 screenplay "Jian gui")
Cast:
Jessica Alba - Sydney Wells
Alessandro Nivola - Dr. Paul Faulkner
Parker Posey - Helen Wells
Rade Serbedzija - Simon McCullough
Fernanda Romero - Ana Christina Martinez
Rachel Ticotin - Rosa Martinez
Obba Babatundé - Dr. Haskins
Danny Mora - Miguel
Chloe Moretz - Alicia (as Chloë Grace Moretz)
Brett A. Haworth - Shadowman
Music: Marco Beltrami
Sarah E. Baker - associate producer
Peter Block - executive producer
Peter Chan - executive producer
Doug Davison - executive producer
Mike Elliott - executive producer
Ogden Gavanski - line producer: Vancouver additional photography
Don Granger - producer
Roy Lee - executive producer
Michelle Manning - producer
Darren Miller - executive producer
Jack L. Murray - line producer (as Jack Murray)
Tom Ortenberg - executive producer
Michael Paseornek - executive producer
Paula Wagner - producer
Writer(s):
Sebastian Gutierrez - (screenplay)
Jo Jo Yuet-chun Hui - (2002 screenplay "Jian gui") and
Oxide Pang Chun - (2002 screenplay "Jian gui") (as Oxide Pang) and
Danny Pang - (2002 screenplay "Jian gui")
Cast:
Jessica Alba - Sydney Wells
Alessandro Nivola - Dr. Paul Faulkner
Parker Posey - Helen Wells
Rade Serbedzija - Simon McCullough
Fernanda Romero - Ana Christina Martinez
Rachel Ticotin - Rosa Martinez
Obba Babatundé - Dr. Haskins
Danny Mora - Miguel
Chloe Moretz - Alicia (as Chloë Grace Moretz)
Brett A. Haworth - Shadowman
Music: Marco Beltrami
Posted on: February 10, 2008
October 12th, 2008
In "The Eye," a remake of a Chinese movie from 2002, Jessica Alba playsa blind woman who gets her sight back thanks to a successful corneatransplant. The only hitch is that with her new eyes – which weredonated by a young lady with psychic powers – comes the unasked-forability to see into the spirit world and predict the future.
"The Eye" might have been an interesting film had it focused solely onhow a once-blind girl learns to adjust to life in a suddenly sightedworld. Instead, we're subjected to an inane, gimmicky thriller in whichthe heroine improbably manages to run across either a dead person orsomeone doomed to die just about every time she turns a corner.
There's no end of point-of-view shots in which ghouls jump out and yell"Boo!" at the audience, but the whole thing is about as scary as ayoungster dressed in a bedsheet doing the same thing on Halloween.
November 3rd, 2008
well first off i will agree that this movie is by no means perfect iwent into it with a open mind and i was quite surprised. i will say nowi have not seen the original the eye so this one did not really have tolive up to anything. i really thought Jessica Alba did a really goodjob playing the lead role. the atmosphere was great and even when youknow something was going to happen i still had a scare. i admit ijumped about 5 times during this movie and the parts i did jump attotally caught me of guard. the plot was decent the acting was prettygood for Jessica even though i usually don't get my hopes up when i seeher as the star role but she did a really good job. go see this with aopen mind and you will not be disappointed its actually pretty good notgreat.
November 3rd, 2008
This might be the longest episode of "Ghost Whisperer" I've ever seen!J-Love looks surprisingly like Jessica Alba, but where is Bruce Willis?It's not a terrible movie! I should probably check out the originalforeign version , and I liked the film overall. I actually like "GhostWhisperer" so I'm really not complaining. I really don't care muchabout character development or story lines. I'm just a dude who likesmovies.
The ending is kind of "cornvenient" Wow! I was trying to say this moviewas good, but…
It ended up being wrapped up in a weird…bow! Kind of like when youpour a soda too fast and the fizz starts to pour over….and you drinkit before it hits the table!
November 25th, 2008
…"The Eye" (yet another remake of a 2002 Asian cult film, whichitself was a moody riff on an earlier American film) serves as littlemore than a vehicle for Jessica "Awake" Alba to stretch her actingchops. Said chops are adequate, and I give her props for learning toplay the violin for the role, but Ms. Alba, despite her beauty, is noMadeleine "Blink" Stowe nor even an Angelica "Gin Gwai" Lee, herpredecessors in gifted sight. Scripted and directed by the duo thatbrought us "Ils" aka "Them" in 2006, "The Eye" follows ablinded-since-youth musician into a haunted world of precognition andspiritualism after the lady receives a set of transplanted eyes from adonor with–surprise, surprise!–those selfsame powers. The effectswork is decent, as is the camera-wrangling by Jeff "Dirty Dancing" Jur,the fade-to-black-rich editing of Patrick "Dracula 2000" Lussier, andthe nervous score by Marco "Scream" Beltrami. I also give the rewriteprops for incorporating a hefty number of solid Latino actors,including the lovely model, Fernanda Romero, and the very talentedRachel "Total Recall" Ticotin, but despite this nod to the fastestgrowing segment of our population, "The Eye" is unable to provide muchin the way of fresh vision. As I said, pretty much strictly for Albafans, or indiscriminate consumers of thriller fare. It's really notmuch on scares (most of which are "boo!" moments), and it's notterribly creepy or unsettling. Mostly, it's conventionally predictable,finishing off with a Hollywood ending that fails to satisfy in anymemorable fashion. Me, I say go watch "Blink."
December 20th, 2008
It was a good movie but predictable in lot of ways maybe its because Iread a novel "Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz" which has almost the samestory. Cool thing was that when I read that book I visualized the samethings as in this movie. Visual effects were amazing , they always arein horror movies. But the movie didn't leave any sort of taste behind.Like in other horror movies , after watching them you would putyourself in the place of the character and think how well you wouldhave handled that situation. this movie lacked this experience mainlybecause the story completed with a happy ending. It looks like horroronly from DVD cover and movie posters but seems more like thriller.